Go language FOSS community workshop
the workshop is spread across 3 meetups each spanning 3 hours (0930 to 1230) hrs
- Sat, August 5, 2017 (Workshop part I - beginner)
- Sat, August 12, 2017 (Workshop part II - intermediate)
- Sat, August 19, 2017 (Workshop part III - intermediate)
Thanks to Amit Agarwal, Zendrive has graciously agreed to host the meetup
The following steps will streamline planning and help the community members get ready for the workshop
- join fosscafe https://meetup.com/fosscafe
- join fosscafe mailing list https://groups.google.com/group/fosscafe
- download and install Go from https://golang.org/dl/
- Windows folks, please install Go in c:\go
- Linux folks, please install go, go-docs, gofmt, godep using your package manager
- FreeBSD folks, please review the ports information at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/lang/go/
- Folks who would like to use a virtual environment, are encourage to access the Vagrant box.
- Saumik Satpathy has uploaded a comprehensive vagrant box (5 GB) on Google drive, which can be used
- Please download strikr.box from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8E6oZ9I_L3mTmdEMHNxajBsYXM
- folks on Windows may wish to install Cygwin for better shell experience
- Notepad++ is a FOSS editor on windows and is quite handy
- we review concepts and then we write code
- we will maintain the code to be studied in this git repo https://github.com/fosscafe/go-workshop
- beyond the session, we discuss on fosscafe mailing list
- This is a free of charge FOSS community workshop.
- We adhere to an 'inclusive and safe' community code of conduct.